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thanks Rick... do you think it will respond to incoming midi clock? Teddy K http://teddyjam.com On Aug 24, 2008, at 1:46 AM, Rick Walker wrote: > I'm so fascinated by taking unusual wave forms > and slicing them into grooving patterns that > I ordered the new BOSS SL-20 Audio Pattern Processor > pedals before they had even been released. > > I've been very busy lately so it came a week ago and > tonight I finally sat down with it. > > What major fun! > > > This pedal will generate different rhythmic slicing patters from > any input (and some slice patterns will just sound great with only > the noise of a guitar inputted). > > I don't know it well yet, but there are several salient features > (Including a simple onboard looping function_!_) that I thought you > all might want to read about it. > > The pedal boasts 50 different rhyhtmic approaches but I haven't been > able to get through more than 3 or 4 in the last hour and a half > because they sound so good. > > The pedal can also be used in latch or momentary mode which is > fantastic for > jamming with yourself (especially if you are running , as I was > tonight, through > a digital delay). > > It has an onboard tap button and a cool lit metronone light that shoes > a red flashing light on the downbeat of the rhythmic pulse and three > green lights > on the down beat (wouldn't if be cool if loopers came equipped with > such a cool tool?) > > No only are there multiple rhythmic patterns , including some cool > ones that generate harmonics > and form very musical rhythmic patterns and some ones with evolving > filters, but > you can control the envelope of the pulses width, and attack and > decay times. > > There are no progammable rhythmic patterns which could be cool and > the machine is > set to 4/4 with 16th notes for the most part (I did find one triplet > shuffle feel as well > and there may be more amongst the 40 or so rhythms I have > experienced yet, > but I'd be nitpicking to say that this bugged me. > > Essentially, with a simple fretless guitar (I just had my frets on > my hideous pink strat > removed today) and playing really simple single and double note > melodies and chords, I was > able to generate interesting grooves that would fit anywhere in > electronica. > > This thing is just a dance composing machine as the simplest kinds > of ideas can generate a lot to work > off of and the sounds are great. > > I especially loved using harmonics and bar harmonics with the > combination of the fretless and > floyd roses whammy bar that's on this guitar > > > With the looper included, you can hold down the on/off button for > the rhythmic slices for 2 seconds as you play > and then, the next time you hit the button, it will record a fairly > long loop that seems to be automatically > synchonized to the rhythm pattern (you have midi control too, > though I did not play with that tonight)when you > truncate the loop with another press of the on/off button. > > The next time you turn off the effect, it immediately erases the > loop so it's great for improvising and > playing with the grooves going and not going. > > I wouldn't use it as my only looper but the ability to loop > something is awesome for me as a multi-instrumentalis. > Several times I broke my neighborhoods sound curfew because I got a > loop going that made me leap onto my drum set > to groove with it. > > It is effective enough that it replaces the need for arpeggiated or > sequenced synth lines that are so often associated with > electronic music. I could concieve of myself hitting the stage > with this, a guitar, bass, drumset and microkorg > synth and playing a really covincing set of dance music for a party > > I'll write more as I know more about it, but I'm very, very happy I > got it. > > Check it out if you get a chance. > > Rick Walker > > ps it also has cool stereo modes though I did not use them tonight > pps it also an expression pedal to control several functions which > I also haven't tried out yet. >